Sentences with phrase «give bravura»

Kevin Kline tends to give bravura performances even when he's not playing bravura characters.

As the mute cleaning lady Elisa, Sally Hawkins gives a bravura, nearly silent performance, and rarely has an actor been able to express so much without words.

In the impeccably casted Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand gives a bravura performance as a mother seeking answers to the unsolved rape and murder of her daughter.

Brian Hegeland) Tom Hardy gives a bravura double performance as Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the identical twin brothers who became the rulers of the London underworld at the height of the swinging»60s.

Bottom line: Jude Law gives a bravura performance as the title character, but you can't escape the feeling that this 2013 crime comedy - drama could have been either funnier or more dramatic.

McConaughey, skeletal yet swaggering, gives a bravura performance.

When on screen, Jackman gives a bravura performance.

He gave a bravura display of the forensic powers of a common law judge at the top of his game: the European Court, he argued, began a line of authority with a decision where it «gave no explanation»; had no requirement to say anything («it was not a rule that was relevant to the facts of the case»); and heard no argument.

The production is by mmadigital and it's good to see Chrissie Lightfoot of Entrepreneur Lawyer giving a bravura demonstration of how to use a sound - bite opportunity — you don't mumble, ever so humble, you hold forth.

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The guessing game over David Miliband's future dominated a day in which he gave his party a glimpse of what could have been — with a concession speech that turned into a bravura display of political theatre.

Irons, busily offset by Silver, gleefully choreographed by Schroeder, gives the picture its real bravura reason for being.

But the good stuff arrived right on time with the bravura centerpiece that gives the episode its title and a stunning ending that had me needing to watch «Séance» again immediately.

Of course, Murphy's bravura turn is aided immeasurably by Rick Baker's outstanding makeup work and the efforts of the visual effects crew, but it is Murphy who gives each one of the Klumps energy and soul.

Credit should be given not only to Ade's bravura script, but to the fine performances from her actors.

German - American actress Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) gives a bold, bravura performance in writer - director Fatih Akins» occasionally conventional but always compelling revenge - rattled new film, In the Fade.

She gives a top - to - bottom bravura performance as a grieving mother antagonizing the town's cops until they find a lead on her daughter's killer, burying her pain under a thick mantle layer of pure rage.

Similarly, Sheen gives a wonderful performance as David Frost, in spite of being somewhat of a support act to Langella's bravura turn.

Want to know how so - and - so gave a famous locker room speech such bravura?

Spader is somnambulently morose; Bassett's earnest intensity seems ridiculously out of place for a piece of cheese such as this; the bland Facinelli exhibits no air of menace whatsoever; Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, and Robert Forster (who receives third billing for a five - minute part) simply go through the motions; and a clueless Tunney makes you wonder if she could possibly be the same person who gave such a bravura turn in 1998's Niagara Niagara.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky's effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76 - year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin Hood who robs from hallowed art tradition to give ordinary people bravura paintings that don't require them to plumb art history or some other arcane discipline to appreciate.

As Hals's bravura portraits defined the Golden Age of Holland, Wiley's painting — at once parody and tribute — gives image to our own age's conflicted relationship to privilege, power, and the past.